Archive for the 'Movie Reviews' Category

Movie review: Transformers

Monday, July 9th, 2007

Directed by: Michael Bay Well let me start with: wow! I’m a skeptic and not a fan of action films in general. So I probably wasn’t the most keen person in the world to see this. But being a fan of the old tv show and in fact wanting desperately to see the effects I [...]

Movie review: Pirates of the Caribbean 3

Saturday, June 9th, 2007

Directed by: Gore Verbinski Well what to say. I think everyone and their cousin has seen this film by now. I saw it opening weekend and to be honest, I was expecting a dud. After the disappointment of the second one (which I hardly remember) I didn’t hold much hope for the third installment of [...]

Movie review: Things To Do

Sunday, May 13th, 2007

Directed by: Ted Bezaire What a boring film. It attempted the awkward dialog and situational humour that succeeded so well in Napoleon Dynamite with miserable failure as the result. The movie’s sentiment was appealing, reexamination of one’s life being the impetus for positive change. A formula like that would naturally seem to be a winner [...]

Movie review: Shaun of the Dead

Sunday, May 6th, 2007

Directed by: Edgar Wright I love this film. Why? The answer is simple, it presents beautifully. The subtle humour that comes about mostly in the dialogue (though there is a fair bit in the visuals as well) is so crucial that one could watch the entire film and get nothing out of it if the [...]

Movie review: A Scanner Darkly

Sunday, May 6th, 2007

Directed by: Richard Linklater Well, I’d give this one a 68% on my magical scale. The film, as I’ve found all of Philip Dick’s movies, is heavy handed and confused in such a way that it seems to fall over itself to tell a tale both lucid and impenetrable as mud, in doing so fails [...]

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